Wednesday’s poetry corner

I am continuing to show case women poets. I wanted to explore women poets whom I am unfamiliar with and I found a very interesting poem by Laura Riding Jackson. I found the following information about the poet.

Laura (Riding) Jackson was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City in 1901. Her first published poem appeared in The Fugitive in 1923. The next year she was awarded the magazine's "Nashville Prize" and invited to become a member of the Fugitive Group. In 1925 she sailed for England and, during thirteen years abroad (primarily in England and Majorca), wrote some twenty books of poetry, criticism, and story.

To read more about Laura Riding Jackson click on the link below. http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/LRJbiography.html

The poem I found is

Yes And No by Laura Riding Jackson

Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet—
No more applicants considered,
Alas, alas—

Ran an animal unzoological,
Without a fate, without a fact,
Its private history intact
Against the travesty
Of an anatomy.

Not visible not invisible,
Removed by dayless night,
Did it ever fly its ground
Out of fancy into light,
Into space to replace
Its unwritable decease?

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out
And in and out come and go
One by one, none by none,
What we know, what we don't know.

To read more poems by Laura Riding Jackson follow this link http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/laura_riding_jackson